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Maybe I have different tastebuds, but cola soda in general (especially room-temperature soda) tastes like soap to me. Glad I never took much to it in the first place, so it wasn’t hard to give up all that aspartame.

Cola soda doesn’t have aspartame. The awful “diet” version does. The rest of the world more accurately calls that “light” soda, because no one with any sense would drink a soda if they were trying to diet.

In any event, everyone who enjoys diet soda of any sort has damaged taste buds, and I pity their inability to taste the poison they’re ingesting.

The rest of the world also has the good sense not to pack their regular soda with high fructose corn syrup. When I tell someone I wish I could score some Mexican Coke, they get very confused. It’s Coca-Cola made with actual sugar. Some places in the U.S. carry it so if you find a store that does, stock up.

Frank, I think it depends on the location. I have yet to see any soda (or chewing gum, for that matter) that doesn’t have aspartame or a similar artificial sugar. Places like Mexico still sell cola with real sugar in it, but they seem to be fewer and fewer of them.

It’s not even so much that they’re bad for you as the fact that they simply don’t taste as good as the real thing.

Does a spoonful of artificial sugar really taste better than natural brown sugar?
Does orange mystery processed “cheese” that’s not even allowed to be legally called “cheese” really taste better than the real thing?
Please.

I think you have those a little confused when it comes to diabetes…… Corn syrup is without question bad for diabetics, as is drinking a regular soda made with can sugar. Artificial sweetener (splenda, aspartame, etc) can be bad, depends on the reports you read, but it likely won’t effect your blood glucose reading.

I haven’t had real sugar in so long that I can’t even tell that diet soda tastes ‘diety’ anymore. That being said, back in my former sugar-filled glory days, Coke Zero was probably my least favorite diet soda.

I can’t drink anything carbonated without suffering from instant hiccups, so I’m one of the few people who wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between Coke or Pepsi and I find it fascinating that there are loyal fans in both camps (and now on the Diet side of the battle too, I suppose).

As for the dog, I’d be pretty pissed off too if I were left out of the Shakespeare In The Park festivities. The dog’s facial expression with the “rolled-eye” look doesn’t really match the text in the note, to me. The dog’s face looks like s/he’s trying to play dumb to the accusations, or at least express, “Well duh – what’d you THINK would happen when you left me out of the plans to go to the park?”

OMG, I saw something like this once on cuteoverload (I *think* it was CU, anyway), and people went nuts. A bunch of people thought it was just horrible that someone put a shaming sign (something about the puppy eating his own waste) on the dog and then took his picture. They were genuinely concerned that the dog’s feelings were hurt. Because, of course, he KNEW that he was being publicly shamed. Lord, it was crazy. Actually, those CU commenters are crazy. Unlike here, where everyone is so kind, forgiving, and rational.

Maybe I haven’t been reading CO diligently enough, but I have yet to read a similar shit-storm of 400+ comments on the indoor/outdoor cat debate. Then again, I think CO has more moderators that don’t allow the debate to get out of hand.

I haven’t been on CO in quite a while, a few years probably. What drove me crazy was how anyone who suggested that either the picture depicted something that wasn’t quite right (eg a wild baby animal that maybe shouldn’t be handled) or that perhaps the language could be toned down were immediately branded as nuffers and run out of town. No matter how politely a person worded their request (eg, “I love CO and would so love to share it with my kids, but I just can’t when the caption has a 4-letter-word in it. Would you consider leaving out the curse words?”) they were just piled on (“no one cares about your stupid kids. Don’t like CO’s captions? Then leave”). Do they still do that?

I know it can get tense here (been reading for ages though I don’t comment too much), but it’s nothing compared to what CO was like.

And if you want a shit-storm, how about a thread on declawing cats? That’s always good fun.

Maybe it’s just the way I’m parsing the comment, but I consider it uber-PA if anyone says “I’d love to share it with my kids, but I can’t because of [thing], so could you pretty please change it?”.

CO and this site aren’t geared toward children. If you find it inappropriate for kids, don’t share it with them. I don’t think I have any right to tell a blog owner how they should modify the content of their blog. Offer suggestions that have to do with navigating the site? Absolutely. Content or comment policy? No, under any circumstances.

I haven’t witnessed what you describe on CO. They seem to have an arbitrary comment moderation system where even the most innocuous comment may land in moderation. Nuffers seem to be non-existent. The biggest commentroversry I’ve witnessed was about a cat picture caption with a reference to Aboriginal head-dress and culture. Mods stepped in, said that they acknowledged the caption may have been offensive of Native Americans and that was the end of that.

I guess I figure that if there is a comment section, you can comment on whatever you want. If it’s done politely, what’s the harm? The blog owner can always say no or just not respond. But really, it’s a *comment* section.

It also sounds like it’s changed quite a bit. The commenters I remember would have had a field day with anyone who was offended by a reference to Native Americans.

As a person who used to have a blog but now don’t (time constraint), I appreciated reader feedback. If a fact was incorrect; if they hated the site design/commenting system or wanted to see more attention to [thing], that’s the stuff I was glad to hear, and met their wishes.

But I dismissed anything like make the site kid-safe / conservative-safe / grandma-safe or whatever. The site is what I want it to be, and if it doesn’t suit you chances are that there’s a site out there that does. Or you can make your own.

Again, that’s just me and the commenting rules I personally abide by when making comments on other people’s blogs.

I rarely comment there because really, there are only so many ways you can say that something is cute (or not cute as the case may be). The silly poetry of NTMTNOM (or whatever he calls himself) is hilarious though, but they rarely let him post anymore.

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"The thing that drives me bonkers at work is to open up the trash can drawer and see a cup half-full of water that was carefully placed into the trash can so it doesn't spill--in a trash can an arm's length away from the kitchen sink!

99% of the people in my office are college graduates, probably toward the top of their class. But some without enough common sense to pour the water in the sink before putting the cup into the trash can.